shadcn on the AI taste debate: 'Taste is in the eye of the prompter'
shadcn · x · 2026-10-12
Responding to a claim that AI "knows things but lacks conscious, situational taste," shadcn (creator of shadcn/ui) delivered a one-line rebuttal: "Taste is in the eye of the prompter."
The quip shifts responsibility for aesthetic quality from the model to the human steering it — output taste reflects the prompting and curation, not the AI itself. A notable voice in the ongoing "does AI have taste" debate in the coding community.
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